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29th Mar 2024

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EU adds six Crimea MPs to sanctions list

The European Union has added six members of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, to the blacklist of people who are "undermining Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence". All six were elected last September as representatives from Crimea, the Ukrainian region that was annexed by Russia in 2014. Those on the list are under an asset freeze and travel ban, with 152 people now on it.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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